Chapter 1498

"Reserves are the biggest advantage of sodium ion batteries. The content of sodium in the earth is 2.75%. Compared with the content of lithium in the earth's crust, which is only 0.0065%, a difference of 423 times. Moreover, this is only a theoretical gap. In fact, compared with the unrestricted extraction of sodium from the oceans that account for 70% of the earth's surface, the world's At present, there are very few proven lithium resources. "

"Reserves directly affect the cost."

"Take the two metals as an example. At present, the price of metal sodium is $750 per ton, while that of metal lithium is as high as $82000, a difference of 109 times. Because sodium ion batteries are still in the laboratory stage, the commercial price gap in the future is temporarily unknown. However, our team calculates that if one day the output of the two batteries is large enough, the price difference will be at least 10 times."

"It's huge enough, which is exactly the application goal of sodium ion battery."

"First of all, it is undeniable that sodium ion batteries have obvious disadvantages. Compared with lithium-ion batteries, the best performance under current laboratory conditions is only about half of the energy density of the latter. However, if the battery is large enough, it will far exceed the current milliampere hour (MAH) level of portable electronic products and reach megawatt hour (MWh) Volume, sodium ion battery will completely crush lithium ion battery in terms of comprehensive cost. "

"It can be said that decades later, once there is a shortage of traditional fossil energy, the combination of the super large photovoltaic power generation matrix studied by SolarCity and the super large sodium ion battery energy storage matrix cooperated with rectry will be an important solution for mankind to get rid of the energy crisis in the future."

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San Francisco.

Westrow system originally bought the Bay Area Branch of rectery after the integration of the battery business department from IBM.

This is the morning of May 29.

It's Saturday.

Simon specially took the whole morning to listen to the technical director of the recycling branch report on the progress of a series of research projects of the company, one of which is a sodium ion battery research project officially approved last year.

This is a project specially included in the 3G plan by Simon.

As for the reasons, resource reserves, manufacturing costs, environmental protection factors, application environment, etc., in short, there are many advantages except that the energy storage density can not be compared with lithium-ion batteries.

In fact, the battery research related to the two elements appeared at the same time. The reason why people only knew lithium-ion battery and hardly heard of sodium ion battery later is that the key is energy density.

Because the main application field of traditional batteries is portable electronic devices, because portable batteries cannot be too large and heavy, they need to store more energy as small as possible, so lithium-ion batteries stand out.

However, if we take a longer view, Simon believes that sodium ion battery is a key future.

As the technical director said, the super large photovoltaic power generation matrix combined with the super large sodium ion electronic energy storage matrix will be an important solution for mankind to get rid of the energy crisis in the future.

In contrast, lithium resources are too scarce.

Perhaps like the two directions of the display screen, LCD faces the small screen and plasma moves towards the large screen.

However, it is difficult to say whether the two batteries will be the same as liquid crystal and plasma in the future. After all, before Simon's rebirth, the dispute between the two screens has been settled. When the liquid crystal breaks through the limit of large screen, even if the display effect is better, the plasma will be quickly eliminated.

In the future, once the gap in energy storage density is no longer wide, perhaps lithium-ion batteries will be eliminated overnight.

These can only be proved by time.

All Simon can do is give more possibilities.

At the end of the morning meeting, Simon left the branch building of rectery in igrit Park, mountain view city and rushed to the private villa near the bay for dinner.

Arriving at the villa, D girl and little Jenny have arrived in advance.

Mainly... Recently, there was another one. Girl D was also pregnant. The last time, Simon returned from China shortly after the birth of two little guys with waist essence and leg essence.

Anyway, I'm not afraid to bite or worry.

Simon just talked with two girls. Girl c took Alice Ferguson to the villa. A workaholic girl looked very reluctant. She felt that it was a waste of time to have a meal from the work area to the residential area.

Then Emmanuel Brent, the tall red haired female president in charge of fusion times, came to join the fun.

So there was a noisy table.

After hearing about Simon's agenda in the morning, girl C first asked, "boss, I was thinking that if controllable nuclear fusion is realized in the future... Well, at least before the depletion of traditional fossil energy, your research on photovoltaic power generation and energy storage batteries will not be in vain?"

Little Jenny added: "or, Simon, you're not optimistic about the future of controlled nuclear fusion?"

Simon smiled and shook his head: "I didn't say I'm not optimistic. This is just one of the solutions for the future. You know, in my opinion, the current human society is like a more and more complex machine. You all know that the more complex the machine is, the more unstable it is, rather than the more stable it is subconsciously felt by most people. Therefore, to deal with some potential crises, we should have more solutions The solution must be better. "

A workaholic girl lowered her head to eat with tableware. She worked so hard that she didn't seem to open her mouth. "Pessimist."

Because of pregnancy, the D girl who easily grabbed Simon's side couldn't help laughing.

Simon also smiled and retorted, "you can only say that you are too optimistic."

Emmanuel, who quietly tried to integrate into this circle, helped: "I think that even if controlled nuclear fusion is realized, photovoltaic power generation and energy storage batteries also have a lot of application needs, such as space exploration. In terms of energy, photovoltaic power generation combined with energy storage batteries is undoubtedly the most feasible scheme if we want to build a lunar or Martian base. Unless we can realize the miniaturization of controlled nuclear fusion power stations, we will go to outer space in the short term It is unrealistic to build nuclear power plants at the same time. "

"You can use a small fission device. It has been realized at present," said little Jenny

Simon said: "as an environmentalist, I think it's best not to send fission devices that may cause serious pollution to the moon or Mars."

The workaholic girl answered again, "yes."

"Actually," Emmanuel added: "According to Kardashev's cosmic civilization level setting, the realization of controllable nuclear fusion is only a complete first-class civilization, while the symbol of second-class civilization is similar to the Dyson ball idea of photovoltaic energy storage combined with complete utilization of stellar energy. After all, no matter how powerful the controllable nuclear fusion power generation device we make, it is impossible to reach the level of one billionth of the energy released by stars."

C girl nibbled at the bread slices smeared with caviar and said, "is it a little too far?"

Emmanuel said: "Because of the technology explosion, even a hundred years ago, everyone in the world probably couldn't imagine our current life. Similarly, once the controllable nuclear fusion is realized, the new energy scheme of photovoltaic plus energy storage is promoted, and the infinite productivity is blessed, we may soon realize the second technology explosion. In this case, the topic we just discussed is certainly not far away."

D girl said, "I think it shouldn't be so simple."

"Yes," Simon said, nodding as he saw the girls at the table looking over "Because the ideal model will always encounter too many unpredictable variables, and the biggest variable is ourselves. Not everyone wants to see technological progress, such as the vested interests of traditional fossil energy. If they know that we have the hope of realizing controllable nuclear fusion in a short time, they may block it at all costs, including using the most extreme methods Type. "

Simon said plain, but girl D couldn't help shrinking her neck. Little Jenny obviously looked worried.

Simon noticed the women's reaction, smiled, shook his head and said, "don't worry, as the richest capitalist in the world, I don't have the ability to fight back."

The premise of talking about interests is strength after all.

In film and television plays, scientists who have developed breakthrough energy technologies are often chased and killed by capitalists, but few capitalists are chased and killed. In the final analysis, it is strength.

Speaking of strength, in the recent film and television industry, "Star Wars Prequel: Ghost threat" is undoubtedly the most powerful one.

The painting was opened on May 19. As Simon had judged before, the public opinion level was almost one-sided criticism of the film, and many long-awaited fans also expressed strong disappointment. However, the comprehensive score of 5.3 obviously had a reputation of emotional elements, which did not affect countless viewers to pay for memory.

Taking into account the Wednesday and Thursday when the painting was opened in advance, and the nine days from May 19 to May 27, the first song of the prequel made a crazy revenue of $140.19 million, which is almost equal to the total local box office of the American version of Aihu, which ranks first in the current year.

At present, we have entered the second box office week. According to the one-day data of the next Friday, the complete box office of the film in the second week of release is likely to be about 80 million, and it is expected to reach 220 million in two weeks. Compared with danilis, the cost of producing the super blockbuster with higher and higher cost, the cost of this prequel is only 115 million. Obviously, Lucas film has almost doubled in business.

However, it is probably limited to this.

As before, after the release of the film, the industry pays more attention to the sales of peripheral products than the box office, because the disappointing reputation of the film itself can be called a bleak film.

Due to the expected huge losses, the stock prices of major peripheral toy manufacturers such as Hasbro and LEGO even fell sharply.

Again, Lucas screwed up.

Countless fans exchanged their feelings of expectation for many years, and then, at least, the audience won't have too high expectations for Lucas himself to direct this series.

Another result is the merger of fox, MGM and Lucas pictures. There are no internal obstacles.

Before the release of the first song of prequel, because of the strong social response of the film, George Lucas also tried to strive for more interests for himself in some details of the merger of the three. In recent days, this guy has quietly gone to Hawaii for vacation, not to mention things such as giving him an additional personal approval for high dividend preferred shares.

In addition, after 80 million yuan is expected to consume the potential again in the next week, the subsequent box office trend of the first song of the prequel can be imagined. We don't have to worry about the continuous crushing of our new films. Even, don't worry about consuming too much market potential for the first song of prequel. Because of disappointment, maybe many people have to watch some other films to make up for their psychological trauma.

June 1999 followed.

In June, on the Yugoslav side, a variable that Simon had been paying attention to completely disappeared. This regional war took a turning point on June 2 when Russian troops suddenly flew from northern Kosovo to Slatina airport on the outskirts of Pristina, the capital of central Kosovo.

Prior to this, successive air raids hit the Yugoslav side to the falling NATO side with all kinds of complacency, and Russia, the only country in the region capable of directly interfering in the war, has always been just talking, so that everyone believes that NATO's complete occupation of Kosovo is almost certain.

Of course, on the surface, the word "occupation" must not be used.

The excuse given is' peacekeeping '.

No one expected that Russia would dare to launch a surprise attack, seizing the only airport in the capital of Kosovo and competing with NATO for the power of "peacekeeping" Kosovo.

Anyway, the result of the incident was that in order to avoid the outbreak of "World War III", a British Army directly confronting the Russian task force did not dare to attack the Russian army and recapture the airport, so it also lost 100% of the chance to control Kosovo.

After winning the airport and controlling such an important transportation hub, Russia quickly increased a large number of troops to Kosovo, and took the initiative more and more.

With the disruption of Russia, the Yugoslav side no longer gives in blindly on the originally one-sided negotiating table. Therefore, the fact that Russia and NATO will jointly exert influence in Kosovo has been basically determined.

NATO is undoubtedly extremely disappointed that the military strike lasting for several months has brought this result, but we just didn't expect that Russia, which is already weak, really dares to do such a thing.

However, Russia has precisely this kind of military strength to do such things, which can also make NATO dare not act rashly.

The reason is very simple. Everyone doesn't want the outbreak of World War III.

On the other hand, in Russia, the Russian army parachuted into Kosovo and regained its influence in Yugoslavia. With the Russian army gaining a firm foothold in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, it was also hyped at home for a time.

Moreover, the protagonist of this publicity is no longer Yeltsin.

The previous adventure, led by someone, was also Yeltsin's last test.

Screwed up, even if he made a commitment to Simon, under the pressure of all parties at home and abroad, Yeltsin may only win another prime minister. Now, it's done. Yeltsin not only fully believes in someone's ability to control the situation, but also accumulates the first prestige chip for the other party to affect next year's Russian election.

Now, the whole thing has undoubtedly got the best result.